Word: bents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Backward Islands, a tropical paradise ruled by a plump old bawd of an empress who believes that her subjects should do what comes naturally. What comes most naturally is dancing, making love, and drinking; and once he gets the hang of it, the consort finds he has a natural bent for doing the same thing. He beds down with a nubile native girl named Tia and sends the royal yacht home without him. Soon three gung-ho paratroopers arrive by helicopter and forcibly take the consort home, but he is so dispirited and uncooperative that it is finally decided that...
...through Hitler's time was known as Deutschland Uber Alles, and even that was borrowed from Austria. Two East European nations are now revising their own postwar anthems, written to please their Russian masters. Rumania is cutting out the line about the "liberating Soviet people," and Bulgaria is bent on sinking the "great sun of Lenin and Stalin which lit our way with its rays...
...bang of a blown-out spark plug or the crunch of a bent fender makes the U.S. motorist fume, but it is music to Gulf & Western Industries, Inc. As a leader in the U.S.'s $7 billion-a-year market for auto parts, G. & W. lives on breakdowns and damage. It lives well: since 1958, it has multiplied its annual sales 22-fold to $175 million, acquired 57 companies that make products as diverse as guitars, jet-engine parts and survival equipment for spacemen. Last week, in its most ambitious diversification, G. & W. made a deal to merge with...
...morning it sounds as if there must be a million of them. At evening in the summer, when the sun goes down on these rooftops, they are all over the sidewalks. On the steps of my house they sit and study small objects (bottle-tops, bent-in beer-cans) with an atomic scientist's endless concentration and precision. I stop to take a look...
...slashing huge food and housing subsidies and to curb inflation, probably, as a starter, by boosting the low lending rates of the state-owned banks. But it did not dare to suggest dismantling the structure of basic welfare benefits. As a matter of fact, listening to Liberal Leader Bent Roiseland, 63, the likely choice for Premier, one wondered why he ever bothered to run as an antisocialist. "The new coalition," said he, "does not intend to launch a revolution. We will listen to the opposition, and I am sure they must have some good advice after their long experience...